Okay, here's the deal. I have a regular Puppy Linux 1.0.6 CD, and I'm trying to back up my files with it. My Windows XP installation has a trojan horse, and a worm, on it and so I can't use that.

Now I have 256 megs of RAM, and a 256 megabyte compact flash card in a USB cf drive, and 1 cd-rw reader/burner. Also, I have a 1.6 gigahertz Pentium 4 processor. And two hard drives each with NTFS partions. Crying or Very sad

Here's the problem. I can use Graveman to burn a small amount of info onto the cd, but the ramdisk is too small to hold a disk image the size of a regular cd. I don't have enough cd's to archive all the info I want to burn, if I can only burn 30meg cds.

Is there any way to burn directly to the CD, without the disk image being needed?

If the overall speed of the system is sufficient and the structure of the filesystem is not too complex, cdrecord will run without creating an image of the ISO 9660 filesystem. Simply run the pipeline:

mkisofs -R /master/tree | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=2 dev=2,0 -

This creates a Diskimage from files and folders in /master/tree , and sends it through a pipe ("|") directly to cdrecord.

Guest,
Wonderful spelling and use of language for an eleven year old. Try using this it will help. Type part of command like just mki now press the [Tab] key. You should have gotten mkisofs I use it to get the correct paths when using windows. For your example if you have started to type Docu then [Tab] key in the command above, it would finish the name for you with the correct way of passing directory names with spaces, i.e. /mnt/hda2/Documents\ and\ Settings.... I can never recall the ways to correct those issues, but [Tab] key does.

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